Noctisardor Bypass stergeda

the bough did not hold. down went the skeleton, in a jumble so loud it was almost profane. 

swept close to her mother’s chest, ava peered at the settling dust. for something that had been so limber in life, it was graceless now. 

she peered up at her mama with an inquisitive poke of her nose, almost too timid to touch the bones now that they had clattered to the earth in a pile of scree.